The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 55
‘Now pull me up again, old Witch!’
Who acts: you · What happens: pull up · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pull | advmod |
| 3 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pull | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pull | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 pull | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Witch | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Witch | amod |
| 9 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pull | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | imperative | you not said here | me | now; again | old Witch obl | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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